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I	A
FROM out the house I crept	B
The house which long had caged my homeless life	C
The mighty City in vast silence slept	B
Dreaming away its tumult toil and strife	C
But sleep and sleep's rich dreams were not for me	D
For me accurst whom terror and the pain	E
Of baffled longings and starved misery	D
And such remorse as sears the breast	F
And hopeless doubt which gnaws the brain	E
Till wildest action blind and vain	E
Would be more welcome than supine unrest	F
Drove forth as one possest	F
To leave my kind and dare the desert sea	D
To drift alone and far	G
Dubious of any port or isle to gain	E
Ignorant of chart and star	G
Upon that infinite and mysterious main	E
Which wastes in foam against our shore	H
Whose moans and murmurs evermore	H
Insupportably sublime	I
Haunting the crowded tumult of our Time	I
Suspend its hurrying breath	J
Like whispers of sad ghosts and spirits free	D
From worlds beyond our life and death	J
The unknown awful realm where broods Eternity	D
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II	A
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I paced through desert streets beneath the gleam	K
Of lamps that lit my trembling life alone	L
Like lamps sepulchral which had slowly burned	F
Through sunless ages deep and undiscerned	F
Within a buried City's maze of stone	L
Whose peopling corpses while they ever dream	K
Of birth and death of complicated life	C
Whose days and months and years	M
Are wild with laughters groans and tears	N
As with themselves and Doom	O
They wage with loss or gain incessant strife	C
Indeed lie motionless within their tomb	O
Lie motionless and never laugh or weep	P
All still and buried deep	P
For ever in death's sleep	P
While burn the quiet lamps amidst the breathless gloom	O
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III	A
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My boat lay waiting there	Q
Upon the moonless river	R
Whose pulse had ceased to quiver	R
In that unnatural hush of brooding night	F
I thought Free breezes course the billowy deep	P
And rowed on panting through the feverous air	Q
Leaving the great main waters on in my right	F
For that canal which creeps into the sea	D
Across the livid marshes wild and bare	Q
So slowly faded back from sight	F
As cloth a dream insensibly	S
Fade backward on the ebbing tide of sleep	P
That city which had home nor hope for me	D
That stifling tomb from which I now was free	D
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IV	C
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Like some weak life whose sluggish moments creep	P
Diffused on worthless objects yet whose tide	F
With dull reluctance hard to understand	F
Refrains its death in life from death's full sleep	P
The river's shallow waters oozed out wide	F
Inclosing dreary flats of barren sand	F
So merged at last into the lethal waste	F
That bounds of sea and stream could not be traced	F
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V	C
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Long languidly I rowed	F
With sick and weary pain	E
Between the deepest channel's bitter weeds	T
Whose rankness salt slime feeds	T
And so out blindly through the dismal main	E
Now shaken with a long hoarse growling swell	S
And soon the Tempest as a King who had slept	F
The sleep of worn out frenzy while his slaves	U
Cowered still in stupor till he woke again	V
Refreshed for carnage from his torpor leapt	F
Breathed swarthy pallor through the dense low sky	A
And hurrying swift and fell	S
Outspeeded his own thunder bearing glooms	U
Then prone and instantaneous from on high	A
Plunged down in one tremendous blast	F
Which crashed into white dust the heaving waves	U
And left the ocean level when it past	F
There was a moment's respite silence reigned	F
Such shuddering silence as may once appal	S
The universe of tombs	U
Ere the last trumpet's clangour rend them all	S
And I sank down one frail and helpless man	W
Alone with desolation on the sea	U
To pray while any sense of prayer remained	F
Amidst the horrors overwhelming me	U
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VI	A
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How shall I tell that tempest's thunder story	U
The soldier plunged into the Battle stress	U
Struggling and gasping in the mighty flood	F
Stunned with the roar of cannon blind with smoke	X
'Midst yells and tramplings drunk and mad with blood	F
What knows he of the Battle's spheric glory	U
Of heavenly laws that all its evil bless	U
Of sacred rights of justice which invoke	X
Its sternest pleading of the tranquil eye	A
Triumphant o'er its chaos of the Mind	F
Commanding all serene and unsubdued	F
Which having first with wisest care designed	F
Works to the end with vigilant fortitude	F
And from that field so drenched with angry blood	F
Shall reap the golden harvest VICTORY	U
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VII	A
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There was a stupor stung with pain and fear	Y
Amidst the strangling surf flung on and on	Z
There was bewilderment above all dread	F
Delirious calm and desperate joy austere	Y
Of revelling through the tempest lorn and lone	L
My boat and I with dizzy swiftness sped	F
In strange salvation from the certain doom	O
Along the urgent ridges over reeling	A2
And gathering up their ruins as they fled	F
And down into the depths of scooped out gloom	O
Whose crystal walls glowed black in the revealing	A2
Of lightning kindled foam and up again	V
Perched on the giddy balance of two waves	U
Which fiercely countering mingle with the shock	B2
And rush aloft confused and tower and rock	B2
Foaming with wild convulsion till amain	V
The mass heaves down from struggling self destroyed	F
And leaves us shuddering in a gulfy void	F
Confused and intermingled fire sea air	Q
Wrought out their ravage for the thunders there	Q
Were echoing in the dreadly stormless caves	U
And shook the deep foundations of the seas	U
The air was like an ocean drenched with spray	C2
Whose meteor flakes outflashed tumultuously	S
Against the sinking heaven's black incline	V
When sudden lightnings seemed to burst their way	C2
Up through the deep to flood and fire its brine	V
Ingulfing for each moment all the Night	F
The blackness and the howling rage in light	F
More lurid and appalling a World pyre	R
But heart and brain were overwrought and soon	V
All vision reeling from my powerless eyes	U
I lay in quiet mercy granted swoon	V
As senseless as the boat in which I lay	C2
And we two things through all the agonies	U
Of night tornado sea and fire	R
Were drifted passive on our fearful way	C2
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VIII	A
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I know not for what time I lay in trance	U
Nor in what course the tempest hurled us on	V
At length to scarce believed deliverance	U
I woke and saw a sweet slow silent dawn	V
Upgrowing from the far dim grey abyss	U
So slow it seemed like some celestial flower	R
Unfolding perfect petals to its prime	I
And feeling in its secret soul of bliss	U
Each leaf a loveliness for many an hour	R
With amaranthine queenship over time	I
It grew its purple splendours flecked and starred	F
With golden fire spread floating up the steep	P
Until they sole possessed the mighty sweep	P
Of crystal lucent aether its regard	F
The blessing of a light of peace and love	A
Charmed with a gradual spell the sullen mood	F
Of the sea giant until all subdued	F
No more his huge bulk livid shook and hove	A
The meteor threatenings of his tawny mane	V
No more growled lingering wrath and turbulent pain	V
But calm and glad th' unmonstered monster lay	C2
Beneath the royal sun's perfected sway	C2
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IX	U
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And there was Land Where seemed a bank of clouds	U
Piled in the South now nobly one by one	V
The pinnacles of lofty mountain peaks	U
Flamed keen as stars enkindled by the sun	V
Emerging as with life from out their shrouds	U
Of silvern haze far cleft with roseate streaks	U
And far beneath them down along the shore	H
A wave of low round hills gleamed pure and pale	S
But soon like any human life	A
The golden promise of whose dawn doth fail	S
Into the same drear noon of barren strife	A
Of which our hearts were weary sick of yore	H
The day grew chill and dark	D2
And through its sullen hours the wintry gale	S
Beat restlessly my b	U